I have recently purchased a couple of IR transmitters, HP Media Center that come from a vendor not currentl listed in the version of LIRC that LinuxMCE uses. From what I have read online these will work once lirc is updated with the vendor specific info. I plan on rebuilding lirc when I get home.

Thanks Posde, the configure script was actuall in the root lirc directory and not in the mce_usb2 directory. Had to change some of the code but built and installled and the thing is working as an IR receiver. Trying to test the transmit functionality now.

Anyone have any ideas how to test the IR transmitter? irw doesn't seem to be part of linuxmce

OK Spoke too soon. I was able to get the mce_usb2 to build within the lirc drivers directory, but as far as getting all of lirc to build I get all kinds of errors. Could someone explain how to build lirc? Can I just grab the latest version of lirc from the lirc website or do we have to stick with what is in the lmc repositories?

I am assuming you are talking about the lirc code base? I just edited the files that are in /usr/src. Is that where you are talking about?

Thom how do I add pronto codes if it is not there? I was able to use irrecord to create an lircd.conf file for it, but I see it gets overridden when mce_usb restarts. Can I use usb uirt to learn the codes?